Broken, coming before God

Coming closer to Passover, the most important period of the year, we should look at ourselves and check if we are prepared enough to come before the Elohim.

Fallible we are, we should recognise our faults of the previous months. In a way, we should feel broken by our weaknesses which allowed the badness to come in and over us.

You also may ask why we should not remain broken. When broken it could be said that we can mend and come in a state where we can achieve the highest heights.

We have to know that we as ordinary being are just nothing But when coming before God, as a nobody, humble and willing to be under Him, it is possible to receive everything.

Like the Most High Elohim is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in loving-kindness [chesed / covenant loyalty] and truth and keeps loving-kindness [chesed] for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin (Exodus 34:6–7), we too should work on ourselves every day over and over again.

Always trying to become more like Christ bit by bit we shall start to change. The more we become conformed and transformed into the image and likeness of God, in whose image we have been created, the more we will demonstrate these wonderful qualities of His chesed love, mercy, grace, patience, long-suffering, goodness, and truth.

That way we will become less judgemental and more merciful; we will criticize less and intercede more.

Coming into covenant with God is not about just following the rules; it is about having a deep, abiding, intimate relationship with a loving God.

Because you are not made only to receive. You must also face the real world and challenge its chutzpah over and over. To do that, you need supreme wholeness, as though you were Adam in the Garden before his fall.

And if you should say,

“But it is impossible! It is beyond the capacity of a created being to be both something and nothing at once.”

You are right. It is impossible. That is precisely the advantage of the human being. That is why God created you:

To join heaven and earth, Nothingness and Being. To be part of His Plan. To make the impossible a reality.

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Preceding articles:

Making sure we express kedusha for 14-16 Nisan

Reciting the Aleinu as a warning against temptation of idolatry

More on Grace and Spiritual Fruit – Abide in Me, and I in you

 

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Additional articles

1. Are Christians prepared to Rejoice in the Lord
2. Seeing or not seeing and willingness to find God
3. Being Religious and Spiritual 7 Transcendence to become one
4. Looking for True Spirituality 6 Spirituality and Prayer
5. Counterfeit Gospels
6. Joining for a new year in the assurance to be bought with a price
7. People Seeking for God 3 Laws and directions
8. People Seeking for God 5 Bread of life
9. Faith coming by hearing and sent preacher gift from God
10. When having found faith through the study of the Bible we do need to do works of faith
11. Mental Enslavement and Sins Syndrome (MESS)
12. Preparing for 14 Nisan
13. Remember the day
14. Pesach and a lot of brokenness in the world
15. Cleanliness and worrying or not about purity
16. Good and bad things in this world
17. A Passover for unity in God’s community
18. Glory of God appearing in our character
19. Character transformed by the influence of our fellowships
20. Self-preservation is the highest law of nature
21. How is it that Christ pleased God so perfectly?
22. Christ entered our world to transform our lives
23. Rebirth and belonging to a church
24. Of the many books Only the Bible can transform
25. Character transformed by the influence of our fellowships

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Further reading

1. Covenant with God/ Perjanjian dengan Allah
2. Gospel Teachings: Faith in Action, Covenant with God
3. more than thoughts and prayers
4. A story of love, lost
5. Greediness
6. You have two choices
7. The List . . .

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